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Daily Growing

from Horse Power by slainte

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A traditional song of love and loss originally from Scotland

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The trees, they grow high and the leaves, they do grow green
many is the time my true love I’ve seen
many an hour I watched him all alone
he’s young but he’s daily growing

Father, dear father, you’ve done me great wrong
you have married me to a boy who is too young
I am twice twelve and he is bold fourteen
he’s young but he’s daily growing

Daughter, dear daughter, I’ve done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord’s son
and he will be a man for you when I am dead and gone
he’s young but he’s daily growing

Father, dear father, if you see fit
we’ll send him to college for another year yet
and tie a blue ribbon all around his head
to let the maidens know that he’s married

One day, I was looking o’er my father’s castle wall
I spied all the boys playing with the ball
and my own true love he was the flower of them all
he’s young but he’s daily growing

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day
they went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play
and what they did there out she never would declare
but she never more complained of his growing

At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
at the age of fifteen, the father of my son
at the age of sixteen his grave, it was green
and death had put an end to his growing

I’ll buy my love some flannel, I’ll make my love a shroud
and every stitch I put in it, the tears will flow down
and every stich I put in it, the tears, they will flow
cruel fate had put an end to his growing

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from Horse Power, released December 12, 2009
Trad / sláinte

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slainte Zürich, Switzerland

Irish traditional songs and tunes and some other celtic sounds we and you like....Swiss made - from the Highlands of Zurich feat.
Barbrara Koenig (voc/guit/bouz) & Selina Leiber (acc) & Urs Bögli (fl, uilleann pipes) & Helen Lehmann(fiddle, voc)
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